How to Use beyond repair in a Sentence
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One more slow start and the Heat might tighten up beyond repair.
— Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023 -
None of the issues are beyond repair, Oats said, since much of it comes down to effort.
— Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 29 Dec. 2021 -
He had been raised among the shards of a lineage fractured beyond repair.
— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024 -
Many of the island’s famed statues were charred beyond repair.
— Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022 -
But based on how things are trending, some alums worry that the program could be beyond repair by then.
— Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec. 2022 -
Even if your phone turns out to be beyond repair, the SIM should retain a lot of its onboard data, like the contacts in your phone book.
— Joel Johnson, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2021 -
What she cannot get used to is how her friends have scattered, their workplaces gone, their homes beyond repair or rents now out of reach.
— Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023 -
Any items beyond repair can be sent to the brand for a credit and peace of mind that the clothes will be repaired, renewed, resold or recycled.
— Kerry McDermott, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2023 -
This was moments after a war in which many homes were ripped apart beyond repair or belief.
— Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023 -
My least favorite meal was the country chicken stew, which was bland beyond repair.
— Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 27 July 2022 -
Don’t wait until a part breaks or is damaged beyond repair.
— oregonlive, 15 May 2022 -
The Chargers parted ways with the 2019 first-round pick after a rift between player and team was deemed beyond repair.
— Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022 -
His popliteal artery, the main vascular supply to the knee and lower leg, was damaged beyond repair.
— Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2023 -
The other regards the rest of the world as essentially beyond repair.
— Stephen D. Krasner, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020 -
More than a string of kind words to a woman whose ankle was likely fractured beyond repair.
— Cathleen Calkins, Longreads, 23 Jan. 2024 -
The question now is which changes will work for a defense that appears broken beyond repair?
— Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Oct. 2022 -
That’s a long way off, and whether relationships have been burned beyond repair remains to be seen.
— Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2024 -
If flooding damages your home beyond repair, this amount may not be enough to rebuild.
— Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023 -
Get rid of uniforms or sports attire that don’t fit or are damaged beyond repair.
— Gemma Johnstone, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2023 -
These protein-rich plaques and tangles degrade the brain beyond repair.
— Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2019 -
Several days later, the man returned to the plaza, this time breaking the menorah beyond repair.
— Agreen, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023 -
For shoes that are worn-out or damaged beyond repair, look for ways to recycle your old kicks instead of trashing them.
— Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Feb. 2022 -
In some moments, the system seems fractured beyond repair.
— Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023 -
Brooks said some equipment can be repaired in place, but other pieces of equipment were damaged beyond repair and need to be replaced.
— Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022 -
But behind the scenes, the interview did little to quell the fears of Hill Democrats who worry that his candidacy is beyond repair.
— Jana Kasperkevic, NBC News, 7 July 2024 -
When they were evicted and their belongings were thrown out of the house, rain damaged everything beyond repair.
— Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 20 Dec. 2022 -
E-waste includes both devices that are beyond repair and those that are deemed unwanted by the former owner.
— The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023 -
E-waste includes both devices that are beyond repair and those that are deemed unwanted by the former owner.
— The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023 -
Experts later said that had the 400 firefighters been unable to halt the spreading blaze, the cathedral would have burned beyond repair within half an hour.
— Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023 -
Experts later said that had the 400 firefighters been unable to halt the spreading blaze, the cathedral would have burned beyond repair within half an hour.
— Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
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